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Volume 2, Issue 2 Excellence with Caring Winter 2005 Inside this issue: From the Dean’s Desk Having closed out another employment in the legal staff and calendar year at the FAMU arena. students at Faculty Profile College of Law, we reflect on The summer was the FAMU a busy and productive season highlighted by our granting of College Alumni Spotlight marked by milestones. provisional accreditation by of Law, We began the calendar year the American Bar Association. I want to Accreditation by launching our Academic During the fall, we enrolled thank you Success program, which helps our largest entering class to for your Celebration Dean Percy R. Luney, Jr. our students hone their skills date, 113 students. continued in preparation for the All of these achievements support of our effort to provide upcoming bar exam. were realized because a quality legal education to In the spring, dozens countless friends, alumni and our students. of our students secured other supporters of the College clerkships, internships and of Law reached out to help. other meaningful summer On behalf of the faculty, Clinical Programs Take Shape Creating One FAMU The FAMU College of Law class of 2005 in September. process. is well on its way to making The students are using their Ka’Juel Washington, 3L, the clinical program integral to new status as CLIs to provide made history this fall as the the legal education and skills legal services for indigent first College of Law student training provided to students clients while under the to complete a full trial in the while providing a critical supervision of a licensed clinical program. Washington service to the Central Florida attorney (both defending and did an externship with the community. prosecuting). Office of the Public Defender, The FAMU College of Law Students who received the Orange and Osceola Counties, clinical program opened in the CLI certification are working 9th Judicial Circuit, for his College of Law fall and provides legal services in the State Attorney, Public clinical experience. In October Contacts to indigent clients in the Orlando Defender and Housing clinics. he did a full D.U.I. trial from area. Law students who have Students in the Bankruptcy voir dire (selecting a jury) to Admissions 407.254.3268 completed the requisite number Clinic were approved by the closing arguments. The trial Career Planning 407.254.3212 of credit hours, generally third U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the resulted in a hung jury and his & Placement year students, may assume some Middle District of Florida to client left the courtroom a free Development 407.254.3210 of the powers and authority of practice as CLIs. The faculty man. The State has the option & Alumni Affairs attorneys when enrolled in a team responsible for the clinics of re-charging the client. Law Library 407.254.3263 law school clinical program. and the certification processes Beginning in the fall of Prior to assuming the are: Phyllis Smith, Hastings 2005, when the permanent responsibilities of an attorney, Jones, Karin Moore, Nicky campus is complete, students students must apply to and Boothe-Perry, Eang Ngov, and attorneys will work out of be approved by the Florida Jennifer Smith, Brad Saxton, the FAMU law clinic’s offices. Supreme Court as Certified Douglas Neway and John The offices are part of the state- Legal Interns (CLIs). The Paul Jones. The local legal of-the-art building and will be Florida Supreme Court granted community also supported set up to operate as a small law CLI status to students in the the clinic and the certification firm. 2 FAMU Lawyer Volume 2, Issue 2 Faculty Profile: Professor Lundy Langston Professor Lundy degree. Touro Law School in Long In addition to Domestic Langston is a member of Prof. Langston came to Island, New York, and at her Violence and Cyber Law, the Founding Faculty at FAMU College of Law from alma mater, NCCU School Prof. Langston’s other areas FAMU College of Nova Southeastern of Law. of teaching interest include Law. She received University Shepard Throughout her teach- Bioethics, Criminal Law, her Juris Doctor- Broad Law Center ing career, Prof. Langston International Criminal Law, ate (J.D.) degree, in Ft. Lauderdale, has given talks in the inter- Juvenile Law, Family Law, with honors, from Florida. While on national arena as well as do- Criminal Procedure, Race North Carolina the faculty at Nova, mestically. She participated and the Law, Women and Central University Professor Langs- in a program in Ghana, West the Law, and Jurisprudence. (NCCU) School ton taught the first, Africa, as part of the Black Prof. Langston co-authored a of Law where she regular semester, Studies Scholars Institute, textbook entitled Torts: Con- also received her ABA approved, cy- sponsored by the Ford Foun- temporary Cases, Comments Bachelor’s degree. Prof. Lundy Langston ber course with no dation and the National and Problems. Her scholarly While a law student in class sessions. Council for Black Studies. articles have been published at NCCU, Professor Langs- She was honored by a stu- She presented talks at the in noted journals and law ton was Editor-in-Chief dent-voted election for her University of Malaga Law reviews such as the Miami of the Law Review and a to serve as faculty speaker School in Malaga, Spain and International and Compara- member of the Moot Court at the law school graduation taught a mock United States tive Law Journal, American Board. Upon graduating ceremony. Prof. Langston law class at the University University Law School In- from NCCU School of Law, was instrumental in adding of Beijing in Beijing, China. ternational Law Review, Co- Prof. Langston clerked at a Domestic Violence work- Domestically, Prof. Langs- lumbia’s Gender and the Law the North Carolina Supreme shop to the Nova curricu- ton has conducted presenta- Journal, Wisconsin Women’s Court for the Honorable lum. In addition to teaching tions at various law schools Law Journal, and Cardoza’s Justice Henry E. Frye. After at Nova, Prof. Langston also throughout the country, in- Women’s Law Journal. She completing her clerkship, taught at Tulsa College of cluding Columbia University also published in an interna- Prof. Langston attended Law in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in Law School, The University tional journal for the Univer- Columbia University Law CLEO (a federally program of Michigan Law School, sity of Malaga Law School School where she received that provides financial as- Duke Law School, and How- in Malaga Spain. her Masters in Law (LL.M.) sistance to law students) at ard University Law School. Faculty Scholarship & Activities Dean Percy R. Luney, Jr. is Friends and Assistant Professor panic and Caribbean commu- dents interviewed were Marcia a member of a recently formed James Smith, III. Other panel- nity in Central Florida. McMahon and Tony Covington. Blue Ribbon Panel on Educa- ists who spoke during the series Associate Professor Na- Professor Langston also taught tion for Orange County Public included professors from the thaniel Friends spoke at a an L.L. M. course in intercul- Schools. The panel’s mission is University of Central Florida training session for Community tural human rights at the St. to develop recommendations for and the Barry University School Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Thomas University School of improved student performance. of Law. Inc. The session focused on Law on Oct. 22 and 23. Thirty- Dean Luney is co-chair of the Assistant Professor James “How to do an administrative five students representing 23 panel’s committee on education Smith, III and Desiree San- hearing” and Prof. Friends made countries attended the class. She management. He also served as chez, director of academic suc- a one-hour presentation explain- has been appointed to the Com- a panelist for a panel titled “Can cess programs, both passed the ing administrative hearings and munity Leadership Council for Ethics & Business Coexist in Florida Bar Examination. Prof. the importance of preserving is- the Howard Phillips Center for Bottom Line Times?” The panel Smith was previously admit- sues for appeal. Children & Families. She will was sponsored by the Univer- ted to the South Carolina Bar Assistant Professor Phyllis act as an advisor to the Orlando sity of Central Florida and the and Sanchez is a member of the Smith was featured in National Regional Healthcare Foundation Orlando Business Journal. New York Bar. Jurist magazine in an item titled and provide philanthropic sup- Professor Barbara Bernier Assistant Professor Regi- “Attorney Q&A: Advice from a port of causes and programs. directed the college’s Law in nald Mombrun has been in- new professor.” America series for the fall. The vited to serve on the board of Professor Lundy Langston Professor Joan Bullock series of discussions, open to directors for the Center for Mul- and two of her students were moderated a panel of women the public, dealt with same-sex ticultural Wellness and Preven- featured in a series of stories judges for an event sponsored marriage, military tribunals, and tion.